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' THE ARMY AND NAVY. Synopsis of Annual Reports ol Department Bureaus. Receipts and Expenditures, and Other Matters, Adjutant-General Dram, in his annual re port to the Secretary of War, states that the steadily increasing interest manifested by the militia of the State is evidenced by the higli percentage of attendance at the annual encampments and the generally excellent military spirit of the troops. The reports of officers on duty as military professors in colleges and universities are generally satisfactory, and evidence a widening sense of appreciation of the value of the early an<l partial instruction of the youths of the country in military studies and liabits. Tlw average number of students attending the-* institutions was C,tJU"2, of whom (KJO attended artillery drills and 3,'i73 infantry drills. Tbe Adjutant-General thinks that the pay of tho lowest non-commissioned officers should not be less than W>, and that the pay of the entire class should be readjusted on tha suggested pay for t!>o lowest jH>sition to $50 or $">o for the highest. On the subject of discharges in the army, the report states that the presence in the ranks of nearly seventy per cent, of tho legal strength of the array, with tiie service ranging from three to thirty-live years, indicate clearly that the great majority of tho men who desert or seek their discharge is limited to that class who have less than three years' service. In order to eliminate from the army, without injury to the Government, men either inapt for military service or rendered restless and discontented by the demands and restraints of a soldier's life, the Adjutant-General recommends that, except where long and faithful ser vice constitute a strong element of favorable consideration, discharges be niaile purchasable by the payment of a sum sufficient to reimburse the Government the expense of recruiting and transportation. The administration of the affairs of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, the report says, has been satisfactorily conducted during the pnst year, and the prison has prolably reached the limit of its growth while the army remains ut its present standard. The accommodations are believed to be sufficient for the number of prisoners which it may be necessary to send to the pri.-on. The Paymaster-General's Report. Paymaster-General Rochester, in his annual report to the Secretary of War, states that the receipts of the Pay .Department daring the year amounted to ?15,8S7,Wi and the disbursements $14,230,3501 Surplus funds deposited in the Treasury amount to S30,00*>; Paymasters' col e:t ons to $B7,381, and the balance in the hands of paymasters June SO, 1887, to ?1,33!?.014. The amount disbursed during the year show.; a large increase over the previous year, which is duo to the large amount paid o:i Treasury certificates in the settlement of claims for soldiers for back pay and bounty. He state* that at the date of the last annual report the number of officers in the Pay Department was 48; since then Col. George L. tebiger ami Major C. J. Spragne Jiave Wjn ret'red. an-1 Major John K, K'a ne has died. Of the 4o ortlcJis now in the do partment only 40 are available for duty, anil this number will, before the close of the next fiscal year, be reduced to ?7, by the retirement of three officers now on active duty. The Paymaster-General recommends" that section ll'JO of the lie vised Statutes be so amended as to authorize the appointment by tlie Secretary of War of such number of additional clerks to Paymasters a* the service may require. The appropriation for mileage will be exhausted before the end of next December. Commodoic Schley's Report. Commodore IV. S. fc'chlcy, of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, has submitted his annual report to the Secretary of the Navy. During tho year an expenditure of $70,877 was made to refit vessels and to supply them with stores at the various yards, and ?357,137 was expended for material The management of the training station at Coasters' Harbor Island is highly commend -d, and credit is given to the commanding officer of the training squadron for the efficiency and good order of his command. Attention is called to the necessity of two modern steam cruising ships to take the place of the three traipine ships now in use?the Portsmouth. 1 Johiistowri and .Saratoga. In regard to the enlisted men and apprentices the report states that the number allowed by law was not exceeded during the nscai year. ine men eniisim are careiuny cxnrainod, and are in the main well-behaved and oitlerly, responding readily to the interest manifested in tliein. The Chief recommends that an additional number of 700 men lie asked fcr for special service in the Naval Academy, coast survey, and fish commission, as the force of men which at present must be detailed for this service frequently cramps the bureau in fitting out additional vessels. MUSICAL aND DEAMATIO. f Buffalo Bill's Will West Show has clcsocl its successful London Season. "The Railroad of Love" is the peculiar title of Mr. Augustin Daly's latest comedy. Ilma Di Mcrska, the distinguished Hun garian singer, has arrived in New York from Eui ope. Mary Anderson has closed a contract with Henry Abbey to make a tour of the United States and Australia in 18S8 and 1889. ThE Booth-Barrett combination during its thre# weeks' engagement in Chicago drewover $75,0W, a figure never before known in the history of the drama in this country. FA concert company composed of some artists, with Miss Bessie Gilbert, the cornetist, has been organized for a tour through the principal towns and cities of New England. The first day's advance sale for Mr. Irving's "Fanst" at the Star Theatre in New York, is said to have reached 116,000, the largest sale of the kind known in America save Bernhardt's ($26,700 in Boston). Mrs. Potter, the social star who has turned professional actress, opened recently "n New York to a house packed with "society people." The tickets for the opening night were sold at auction, and realize large prices. crestojt Cr.akk is the latest and newest melancholy Done. Ho is a son of John S. Clark.a nephew of Edwin Booth, and a grandson of Junius Brutus Booth. He made his debut in Richmond, and appears to have scored a hit. A new tenor has made his appearance in Berlin, who is said to possess tlio much coveted C sharp. He was a successful animal painter, but one day ho discovered that he possessed a voice, and now sings under the stage name of Ricardo. No concert company appears to be considered complete this season unless its membership includes a violin player of the gentler eex. oig. Campanini is to introduce as one of his company of artists Signorina Metaura Toricelli, of whom all possible complimentary statements are being made. Tua has made her American debut, at Checkering Hall, New York, and the verdict is that she is a great violiniste?for a little firl. Boetel, the German tenor, has made is American debut at the Thalia Theater in New York, and the verdict is that he is a great singer of the Wachtel school. THE LABOR WORLD. The Farmers' Alliance will build a flour mill iu Atlanta. Texas, at a cost of 815,000. An agricultural implement factory is to be erected in Statesville, N. C. During the month of September charters were granted to fourteen new carpenters' unions in the United States. South Carolina textile mills are selling their sheatings and drills all over the United states and Canada. There are twenty-one bureaus of labor In the United States. Four years ago there were only seven. The men who run elevators in the office buildings, hotels, flats and business houses in Js'ew York City have organized. Marvin Huohktt, the executive head of the Chicago and Northwestern liailroar^, and one of t!ie b^st known railroad men in the West, wm a poorly paid telegraph operator not many years ago. '* - I NEWS SUMMAR Eastern and Middle States. ? Twenty-seven suits for damages h j been entered by Salvation Army menagai Augusta, Maine, for alleged unjust arrest! Twexty-kivk horses were smothered death at a tire in a New York stable. I Thrke counterfeiters who have been Ho j in? Eastern Pennsylvania with spuri i money have been arrested at Reading. : detectives obtained a full confession, giviu descript ion of the place where the counter I money was made, and implicating a do i j persons. At Chenango Bridge, N. Y., on elect day eleven women were allowed to vc i They voted the straight Prohibition tickel I Tub auction sale of the late Henry W ; Beecher's books, pictures and objects of j in New York, gave many people an oppoi nity to secure mementoes of the Plymo 1 Church pastor. Some of the articles brou high prices. fionth and West. | Adam i ix, a t oy 01 seventeen, snot n I self dead in his father's barn ut Clevela j Ohio. I A firk has destroyed the village of Sh: I Grove, In<L Twelve persons were drowned by the setting of the schooner Ocean Bint in I quotauk Sound, N. C. j Governor 0?lesky, of Illinois, recei1 an immenso number of petitions from parts of the country for und against execution of tho condemned Chicago i archists. Man}' of the petitions for me: were signed by leading citizens. A search of the cells occupied by these1 condeinened Anarchist.* in the Chicago ; resulted in a startling discovery. In the < of I-ingg, one of the condemned men. w found four gas pipe bombs, hidden in acig box. The bombs were believed to cont dynamite, and were handed to a chemist examination. Friends of the prisoners cJain t that the bombs had been secrotlv placed Lingg's cell by the ]x>liee in order to count act the possible elYeet of the numerous titions for mercy which had been sent Governor Oglesby. A few days before the time set for the ecution of the Chicago Anarchists one their number, George Engel, attempted commit suicide bv swallowing a quantity laudanum which had been smuggled into cell. He was restored to consciousness hi doctor. A Sheriff's posse lired into a crowd negroes at Pattersonville, La., killing f< ana severely wounding one. There had to I trouble in the vicinity, and the militia I J been called out. The colored men refused I disperse wnen caned upon, i Washington. Mrs. Cleveland has received from . nsaica. West Indies, an elaborate fau, mi ; at the Women's Self-Help Institution on tl j island, of native woods, ferns and flowers. The British Government will prosecute ; persons who took part in the recent midui; | meeting at Woodford, Ireland, at which 1 i proclamation of the Lord Lieutenant fort | ding the meeting was burned. Among th ! to be indicted are two members of J'ar] ( nient. President Cleveland has written a Jet ! of sympathy for settlers who have bt evicted from their land in Texas throu | proceedings in the State courts, but decla j that the National Government is unable interfere, Tip let'er is in response to an j . peal by General Weaver. i Tiie financial operations of the Unit I States Navy during the past fiscal year w< I as follows: Amount appropriated, $38, It: j 510; drawn out by warrant, $15,152,1 balance in band, $22,020,421; expended, | shown by vouchers, ? 14.S94,291; amount ov ! paid, ?2-s,:i01; carried to the surplus fui | ?4 Hi,0157. During the year $1,124,195 v ! j nid out 011 account of 0,198 navy pi | pioners. Total receipts of the Post-oflice Depa ment from all sources for the last fiscal y< j were $48,S{7.M9, and expenditures for I i same period *5.V>91.077, leaving a deficiei: , of $8,544,00*. Foreign. i Eighteen Nihilists have been arrested ; Kieff and Odessa, Russia. | Jay Gould has arrived in England. A TYPHOON has ravaged tho island of ] j Ling, China. From 100 to 200 lives w ( lost Three British soldiers and a number ' Zulus were killed in a skirmish. | LATER NEWS, Sidney F. Sheleurne, a Now York Ia\ 1 yer, while inspecting some machinery at t ! American Institute ^air. slipped and fell up the fly wheel of a huge engine. His bo< was crushed into a shapeless mass. , New Jersey's noxt Legislature will star Senate?13 Republicans and 9 Democra House?38 Republicans and 22 Democrats, j The next New York Legislature ?i 1 c< si?t of 20 Republican and 12 Democratic S< ' ators, 73 Republican and 5? Democratic ; semblymen, Bclden (Republican) and Tro (Democrat) have been elected to Congress, j Massachusetts1 vote for Governor v 1 as follows: Ames (Republican), 135,912; L< ering (Democrat), 1 IS,oil; Karle -Prohi i tion), 10,007: Marks (Labor), HIS; total, 2( I 208: Ames's plurality, 17,011, against 9,, last year. The next Virginia Legislature will j heavily Democratic. Five colored Repi i licans were elected. j Investigation of the affairs of the s wended Fifth National Bank, St. Louis, she i that the institution had been wrecked | its officers. C. C. Crecelius, the Cashier, 1 j been arrested. Greece has been visited by a severe ear | quake shock. There were 310 deaths from smallpox i Havana in October. John" L. Sullivan*, the American " cha j pion bruiser,'' attracts groat crowds in E: land. The German Crown Prince's throat trou j. has returned. It is thought his days i j numbered. THE NATIONAL GAME. I Locisville has sigued Sam Smith, i Denver, to play first base. ' The New Yorks will have enough playi next spring to make two or three nines. There will be many new faces in the d ferent clubs when the next season opens, i There seems to be a large-sized baseb combination in the West as well as in 1 East. The Detroit and St. Louis clubs propose play a championship series through the Hoi i next season before the regular League seas j Opens. The attendance at the fifteen Ditroit-i ! Louis games was 51,435. The receipts w? about s'jO.OOO. After paying all expanses 1 ! clubs divided $24,000. Only three men played in every Leag j championship game last season. They i j Ward, of New York; Morrill, of Boston, s 1 j Sam Thompson, of Detroit. j Fkrgcson, of the Fhiladelphias, is a bo ball wonder. Ho is the tourtli among pitchc ! second in second basemen, third in batti: aud has the best record in a run around j base lines. Dunlap's record of .953 at second base t ! season for Detroit is by far the best e' I made iu the position. Last season Bastii of the Philadoiphias. lei the position w . .1M4, which was the best up to that time. It is given out by one of the best of auth I ities that Itidbourne is to go to the Phila* I phiaClub next season, that Ward will ' play in New York, and that Pleffer i Williamson will not leave Chicago next t son. First-base does not seem a hard posit ; to play, yet a number of clubs have foun pretty nard to get the right tort of nj j Pittsburg, Cleveland, Louisville and ' Athletics were practically 6hoit handed ; this respect Mike Kelly, the famous baseball pla\ ' has signed a contract with the McN: Johnson & Slavin minstrel partY. He i act as interlocutor, and his contract calls hits appearance after his return from C'alii nifl, iu January, J8S& Y AN INDIAN REVOLT. JJ5 Rebellious Crow Indians in Bats' tie Array in Montana. to ?j- A Fight With Troops in Which the rho Hostiles Were Whipped. ga t'eit zen On October 3 the War Department a< Washington was informed by telegraph thai ion a number of young Crow Indians, under th< ^ ' leadership of Sword-Bearer, an ambitious jjj.j young chief, had fired into the agency build irt, ings in Montana. They had then jusl rtu- returned to the agency from a successful "M? raid on the Piegans and were defiant an<i hostile. The agent was unable to arrest them with his Indian police and requested that troops be sent to his aid. In the mean I time the yonng bucks were terrorizing th< nd" a?enc^ people. Tuey rode about nights ' whooping and yelling nud occasionally firing into tne buildings and at white people of th< *<ly locality. Two troops of cavalry were immediate!} up- despatched from Fort Custer. They found 'tis- the situation more serious than was expected Sword-Bearer had ordered other Indians tf red j?in his baud until there were 200 or more ol all them. They intrenched themselves on t the height overlooking the agency and dared th? \n_ authorities to arrest them. The two coinn.y panies of cavalry were not strong enough tc undertake their arrest, and three additional troops were hurriedly sent there. jThe troops, however, were instructed no) ' to attempt the arrest until the rebellious bucks ere hn(* Quiefce^ down. It was then thought thai after the excitement attending their victorj ain 5ver ^eir old-time enemies, the Fiegans, had f ? subsided the offending young braves woulc i surrender and bloodshed be averted. A week later the Washington authorities directed Inspector Armstrong to investigate ~ the affair. This he did, and a few days age Y* wired the War Department that the arrest ol Sword-Bearer and his rebellious band was imperative. Additional efforts were made to ex" ' ?et them to lay down arms and surrender, | The various chiefs were appealed to and urged CO use Uieir ll^LlUeilue. DUU ail lcuicu aiiu uic '?f following dispatch from the agency an "is nounces the sequel: f a Scout Campbell and Interpreter Tobacoc Jake were sent to the Indian" village yester of day morning to order the chiefs to come t< >ur General Ruger at headquarters. Pretty =en Eagle harangued the camp, and Crazy Head tad Iron Fork, Dancing Woman, Kearney, Twc to Belly and Spotted Horse rode before t< General Ruger's quarters. The following parley then took place: Gen. Frank Armstrong?I have been senl by the Great Father to settle the trouble. J a- You must give us everything and turn over 'de {he Chief besides the men. Gen. Ruger will iat settle it his way. That's all. Pretty Eagle?We are willing to give up all Sword-Bearer, but can't give up the others, jht Gen. Ruger?I want all the bad young the men. (To Crazy Head) I want your boy, iid- too. o.-e Pretty Eagle?We will go back to oui lia- camp. Gen. Ruger?The Great Father sent me to tei- take the bad young men, and I must have ,en them, They shan't be hurt, but must be ~i, punished. ,? Pretty Eagle?We will go back ami talk to t0 the Medicine Man. ip. Gen. Ruger?That is all I have to say. Pretty Eagle and the other chiefs then . returned to their camp. The cavalry were 1 drawn up in full field order on the eminence jJ? fronting the Indian position. The Indians soon began riding about and singing war L>0' songs. ^ At the end of the time allowed the Indiafls e?' to come in with the bad young men the cav, ! aliy advanced, the infantry took position, ^ and the Indians open Ore. At the first volley, ?n" Corporal Charles Sampson, of troop K. First Cavalry, was shot dead. Private Eugene rt- Molloy, of Troop K, was wounded four times, -ar The Indians took a position in the rifle pits the and in the brush. Tho llotchkiss rifle planted icy its first shot beyond the Little Horn. The next fell in the Indian camp and one Indian and a horse weie killed. The cavalry now advanced upon the Indians, driving them into tho brush. Sword111 Bearer was killed, being shot twice in the skirmish fire by G Troop, First Cavalry, commanded by Capt. F. C. Upham and Lieut, ioi J- B- Aleshire. The Crow scout Fire Bug en also claims to have fired the fatal shot. Nearly all of [them came into the agency, , ni only about twenty escaping to the hills. The latter are now being pursued by cavalry. rrt-. -i??? oil fha nocnnltioc ay. 1 Lit" UiJUvu uatucu v?w ci mi l?o vw^uutv.vw w? cept one man, who was slightly disabled by a fall. Five Indians are reported dead. There is no danger to the settlement. v. A MONTH OF DISASTEES, il? October's Record of Losses on the Great Lakes. dv The month of October shows an aggregate ((j. of 285 accidents and disasters on all the lakes, k. 117 more than in September this year, and 115 more than in October of last 3n. year. They occurred as follows: Lake Michigan,'J i; Lako Huron, the Straits, and 3n" Salt River, 80; rivers, 18; Lake Superior, 15; Is- Georgian Bay, 1:5; Lake St. Clair, 35; l^ake ,cy Erie and Welland Canal, 15; Lake Ontario, 12. The causes were: Heavy weather 116, lo?s $281,400; stranded raa SI, loss $108,000; ashore 50, loss 3v- $220,500; spruug a leak 11', loss ?W,fi00; disabled 24; loss ?HS,400; collision 18, loss ;r $17,900; tiro loss $11,800; loss in cargoes, ?>51,100; toLU loss for the month, $l,0(?ii,2091 173 an increase over September of $325,309. Reckoning forty-nino lives lost with th( . steamer Vernon 132 persons were drowned from vessels in October on the great lakes. Jl J'J" all these losses could be thoroughly investigated, says a dispatch, there is every reason 1US. to lielieve that it would be found that the di rect cause of more than one-half of them was lWS overloading. Nine times out of ten disaster! by that are attributed to a stress of weather ar< has really from carrying too much cargo Never in the history of the lake mariue ha the dangerous practice of overloading ves th- sels been carried to such an extreme as thL season ' 'n The new census of Buffalo, N. Y., jusl taken by the police, will show that the tota m- population is 230,000. The last preceding census was taken in June, 1885, and showed i ? population of 20'J.818. ble THE MAItKKTS. nre NKW YORK. 15 Beef, good to prime 10 Calves, common to prime.... 5 @ s;.jj ?? .V- '.(en 4;,i -/ -j. : I^ambs } t/C Hogs?hive 5 (<$ ;?:4 0i Dressed '5 '/$ Flour?Kx. St, good to fancy t Si (<t 4 40 West, good to choice i> 50 (m 4 85 -r3 Wheat- No. i lied 83 & iB'j Rvo?State 50 (<j 5S iif- Barley?State !*7 ' #> Coru?Ungraded Mixed.... all Oats? White state ? @ 37 the Mixe<l Western 34 Hay?MeiL to prime 70 (<5 sj Straw?No. I. Rye 70 (tfi 75 th Lard?City Steam 6 70 @7 40 Butter?State Creamery (<*! ~7 ,<m Daiiy ' 1!> (4 Si West Iin. Creamery l'i (ip '[ Factory I' !}*&: W pre Cheese?State Factory 10 (?<> llyj th? Skims 5 (0 '? Western jue Eggs?State aud Penn 25 (ij -4 are buffalo. ind Steel's?Western "25 @3 75 Sheep?Good to Choice 15 >5 ($ 3 75 ise- Lambs? Western 4 75 05 5 35 ;rs) Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 70 (i| 4 80 Qjr Flour?Family 4 75 ?q 5 15 the Wheat?No. 1 81 (ft S4.J-. Corn?No. Mixed 4S}{(</) 4^ j. Oats?No. Mixed ? (ri/ 30^ rer Barley-State fVt <41 05 an, BOSTON. ith Beef?<Jootl to choice ~')i@ 1?'-; Hogs?Live QP_ Northern Dressed.... *>%(<$ 7'j )ol_ Pork?Ex. Prime,per bbl... 17 00 ((417 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 (<|i 4 Corn?High Mixed ? (d) "> '>!: Oats?Kxtra White *>> (?& Hye?State <30 (# 'j.? WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. j i? Beef? Dressed woight 7 @ Sheep?Live weight "4 f?- Lambi 5V. ^ Hogs?Northern 4/l..'((J 5 ' I'HILADEr.PHIA. ' Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 50 & 75 ! > Wheat?No. "J, lied S3 Corn?.State Yellow 5V@ 51): *ljl Oats Mixel <3 83 lor j^ye?. tate 52} ?'$ 58 or" B :ttcr Creamery Extra... 125 <3 30 Chee>e?N. Y. Full Cream.. ? @ 12 ELECTION ECHOES. Balloting for Candidates in the States? Some Results. Elections have taken place in ten States. Governors, State officers and members of the Legislature were chosen in Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts and Ohio; State officers anil . legislators in New York; a State Treas' urer and Judge of the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania; a Supreme Court Judge in Nebraska and in New Jersey and Virginia legislators only. Oregon voted ^ uj)on an amendment to the Constitution prok liibiting the sale of liquors. lies:iles tliesj State elections, four mem> bers of the House of Representatives in the i Fiftieth Congress were chosen?two in New York, one in Louisiana, and one in Rhode Island. Some of the results, as indicated by 6 the figures on the day after election, were as I follows: 1 In New York the entire Democratic State t ticket, headed by Cook for Secretary of ' State, was elected. Cook's plurality was I estimated at about 15,000. The Labor vote - was estimated at 70,000 and the Prohibition j vote at 45,000, a gain of nearly 9,000 since s last year for the latter. Both branches of ' the Legislature remain Republican. j In New York City the" entire Democratic ticket was elected The main r fight was for District Attorney, between Fell lows, the regular Democratic nominee, and Nicoll, also a Democrat, who was nominated > by the Republicans and received the support [ of tlio World. Fellows was elecUxl by a i plurality of 23,000. The Henry George j or Labor vote fell oil heavily, George receiving 30,003 votes for Secretary i of State, against 08,000 votes for Mayor last L vear. In Brooklyn, Cliapin was chosen Mayor by a small plurality. Belden (Repubt lican), was elected to Congress from the Syraj cuse district by 8,<>00 majority. i In Now Jersey the Republicans held control r of the State Senate, and made gains in the I Assembly sufficient to put that bxly in their 1 hands. This insures the election or Republican successors to State Comptroller Anderj son and State Treasurer Toffey, both Repubj licans. > Pennsylvania went Republican on the State [ ticket by about 20,000 majority for State i Treasurer, a Democratic gain over the election i for the same oflic.; in 186.5. (Jovernor roraker (Republican) was re I el"; ted in Ohio by an estimated plurality of i over 25,000. The" Legislature went Republi con. In Massachusetts the Republican plurality j was estimated at 14,000. The Democratic loss in Boston was about 3,000 and in the State > about 8,400. There was an increased Prohir bition vote. The Legislature is heavily Re, publican in both branches. i In Virginia the Democrats carried the Leg) islaturo, insuring a Democratic successor to ; United States Senator Riddleberger. In Maryland the Democratic ticket, headed [ by Jackson, was successful. "Nebraska was carried by the Republican# by an estimated plurality of over 20,000. [ In Rhode Island the Republicans regained tho Second Congressional District, electing Warren G. Arnold ly a majority of 542. In Oregon the vote was on an amendment to the State Constitution prohibiting the sale of liquor. This amendment was defeated by about 10.000 majority. In Mississippi there was little opposition to the Democratic nominees, and the Legislature is largely Democratic in both houses, i In Chicago tho Republican Municipal i ticket and in Detroit the Democratic Municipal ticket won. A MENAGERIE LOOSE. Eve*! ing- Time at a Kailroail Depot in SI. Louis. An accident occurred tha other evening which cause I destruction, death ami iwtndemouiurn in the St. Louis Union Stitiou, and for u time converted that prehistoric institutution into a veritable African jungle an I howling wilderness of wil I beasts. Six cars owned by Robinson's circus stood on a track in the yards. Lions, tigers, big snakes and other wild beasts filled them. The station win filled with suburban residents and visitors from country towns. Tho train was on its way from Dodge City to Cincinnati, and was pulling out of tlio station when the six cars left the track. They were scarcely oil before a freight train n/xntinf* flm/.tf/rvt /-umil'tkirl i'?Ia t.ltnm f-ionrmt cuuilll^ Will Iioucu ?a?vvr vii.ihi v"-"'ow Squires, a canvas man, who was on ono of the cars, was instantly killed. His head was cut off ami his limbs were torn from his body. Blanche Fisher, a performer, was hurt about the head, one of the ptssenger coaches being wrecked. Thomas Foley, Joseph Eisel and one man unknown were seriously injured. Oth.irs were hurt moro or less, but did not 1 require hospital treatment. The shock threw the cars into a chaotic mass and attracted a crowd. .Suddenly a voice screamed: ''My (Jo l.the tiger is loose!" and the Royal Bengal lioun led i into the crowd, which scattered in all directions. One man was bitten in the neck by the dazed and infuriated animal. Capt. Hercules and other officers were present, but they dared not shoot on account of the density of the crowd. A flight of stairs leads to the upper offices, and ' up this tho tiger sprang. Near the top he i ni'-t Joseph Charles, ono of the clerks. Tho surprise was all on Mr. Charles's side. Man and animal stood facing each | other. There was not room for them to pass, and Mr. Charles slowly retreated, facthe beast, which glared at him and folI lowed him step for step, preparing for a spring. Mi*. Charles shouted for assistance. There were three women in the office. They did not shriek or faint. They got chairs and tables to barricade the door and shouted tor help from the window. Mr. Charles got into the ofllce safely, put his revolver through s the slightly opened door and tired at the I tiger, which became more and more > infuriated at every shot. At this juncture . circus men arrived with poles and canvas, j and after a struggle succeeded in overpower. ing the brute. Tliey threw canvas over him s and pinned him to the lioor, where they held 5 him until he was taken to a ca^e. ? Nino cages are demolished and two mountain lions are dead. The loss to the company " will lie $:X),000. Fourteen animals in all were liberated from the cages. A li<?n was ? overpowered with pikes and canvas under 4 a freight train, a leopard was shot in the k head, an ibex was captured slightly inj jured, a big boa constrictor was cut to 1 pieces under car wheels, and the Hengil tiger ? has three bullets in him and numberless pike 1 wounds. Eleven animals were at large rainpant,creating a ivign of terror in the s mlhern section of the city for over two hours. Squads of circus men with fircarms,pikcs,eti\, assisted officers in capturing them. The last secure l was a mountain lion, which fought des|>eratoly in the ticket o.'ii-e or (iemral Manager Taussig, until lassoel with st -ong ropes, nearly strangled and hauled into a cacre. NEWSY _GLEAOTaS. Several Guatemalan revolutionists have been shot. A Michigan train ran over a fox and killed it the other day. Tri-wekkly public receptions have been resumed at the White House. A society in Detroit of men sworn not to swear numbers nearly 1,000 persons. Kansas abounds in natural gas. There are 113 companies engaged in developing it. Bureaus for furnishing legal advice free , to the poor is the latest thing in New York. TnE onion crop in the United States is ttaif year about three-fourtlis of an average crop. A well defined case of loprosy is reported to have been discovered in St. Louis by a prominent specialist. It takes 14,800,01)9 gallons of oil a year to keeptlio railways of Great Britain going, and the cost is nearly $2,000,000. The trade and shipping of table grapes, in ; California, has greatly increased, and it is \ safe to estimate it at nearly double that ui lasi. j uui . Sugar-cane in Louisiana, although it has , fallen off somewhat in general condition, is ' still tlie best grown crop iu Louisiana for , many years. 1 A late steamer from San Francisco for China took out 'Mi tons of mining machinery ' and six skilled American miners to aid in ' the mineral development of that conutry. The Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., netted a cash pro/it of $10,000, besides payj iug over $150,000 for the buildings and ( srrounds. On account of this success there . will probably be a World's Pail* there in 1 18S9. The Railroad Gazette's recora of trafn accidents in September includes eighty-three ' collisions, sixty-three derailments and four other accidont*, a total of 150 accidents, in which sixty-one persons were killed and ID.1. | injured. ACROSS THE VIRES. Events of Importance Flashed Over the Telegraph. Mexican Bandits Create a Reign of Terror On the Rio Grande. A reign of terror exists in the up-river border counties of Texas, between Edinburg and Roma, the result of the shocking depredations of Mexican bandits. Since thejabduction of Senor Barara, whose friends had to pay $1,500 ransom, almost every merchant has received threatening letters ordering payment of heavy sums on the penalty of abj duction and torture. The wealthy never travel without a heavy guard. The border Sheriffs, who are poorly paid, are doing what ' they can with their Deputies, to hunt the rob bers down, and a small force of rangers has i been sent by Governor Ross to Bio Grande I r'ifir Knf i'f ,'o fflfiro/l tVtnf l'fl not strong enough to round the bandits up in such a long extent of wild bottom and wooden country. District Judge J. C. Russell, who is a large ranch owner in Stair County, acknowledged that the civil authorities were unable to cope with the matter. In the meantime the bandits are j continuing their work. . On Monday, at high noon, they entered the Havana Ranch, in Hii dalgo County,a place of about 500 inhabitants, | surrounded the store of Magdileno Plores, ] drove the occupants out, and robbed the I place of eveiy bit of goods it contained, j They then tore off the doors, smashed | the windows, and threatened to rei turn and sack and burn eveiy house i in the place. The band numbered twentyj one men. The day before another party of | bandits, about twenty strong, attacked the Attasosca Ranch, on the San Juan river, a j few miles above Camargo, Mexico, and sacked the place, abusing and outraging the ' people. Tney were pursued by Mexican cavalry under Captain Lamadrido, and Plasuelas, a lpader, and another bandit were secured. Plasuelas was executed at Camargo, and the other will suffer the same fate. Lamadride, an active officer has at his command all the men that he wants, and gets a step in rank for every bandit captured. President Diaz ; has ordered that the severest measures be j usei to put down banditage on the border, j and General Velain, in command of this military district, is anxious to co-openue witn the American authorities, aud drive out and eliminate these pests. The State authorities of Tamaulipaa are very lukewarm. Their party newspapers openly attack Velain for causing the capture of Lorenzo Vela, a noted bandit, and the murderer of Sheriff Martin, I of Stair County, who was sent to the fortress of San Juan de Ulloa, at Vera Cruz, and are trying to excite a sentiment among the people in favor of the wretches and against the party of law and order. 1 A Man Kills his Wife, Child, and Brotber-in-Law. Mrs. Mary Bruner, the mother of Mrs. Charles B. Brownfield, called about 10 a. m. the other day at the house of her daughter in Louisville, Ky. No one answered the doori bell, and she went to the window, raised it | and pushed back the shutters. In the middle of the doorway between the room ! occupied by her daughter and husband and I little daughter of eigne or ten years, and the j room occupied by William Bruner, a I brother of Mrs. Brownfield, was the body of Charles Brownfield, suspended by a strap ati taehed to tho lintel. On a bed in a dark corI ner lay the body of William F. Bruner with I his throat cut On another bed were the i forms ci-iis wife-and child, age nine, thoir hands were almost severed from their bodies. Beneath Brownfleld's feet lay the razor with which the murders had been committed. On the bureau in the parlor la> a letter written by Brownfield, acknowledging himself as the triple murderer, and declaring that gambling had been his ruin. He was twenty-seven years old. Damage Done by Hunters. A dispatch from Portia, Ark., says: "The | woods for ten miles around have baen on fire I for four days. Cotton fields have been burned, | corn cribs, barns, dwelling houses aud fields i ruined. The woods nre bare, stock is coming 1 out for shelter and some being run out on ac! count of tho fire. Unless rain should | come the damage will be widespread." A dispatch from Anna, 111., says: "For i some days disastrous fires have been raging I in the hill lands, the woods aud bottom lands | of this region and in tho swamps across the : river in Cape Girardeau County, Mo. The j long drouth bas made everything as dry as tinrTfir. nnri ruin i?j fprvAntlv nrovnH fni? ? Hanged, for Murder. Tuck Agee was hanged ill the inclosure of the Lexington (Ky.) jail on Friday. On Sep. 22, l&tt. Agee murdered his brother-in| law, James Faulkner, during a quarrel about ! the ownership of two dozen roasting ears. On the same day Henry Robinson (colored) was hanged ut Union Springs, Ala. In May I last he murdered an aged colored man who ' had a young wife, and was the cause of the trouble. Precautions Against Cholera. Quarantine Commissioner Nichols, of New York, has called upon Secretary Fairchild in I Washington and had a long interview in rej gard to the adoption of measures to protect ] the Atlantic ports against cholora-infected ! vessels. It is understood that the Corumis' sioner held that such infected vessels should be turned back upon arrival in America and compelled to return to the country whence they came PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mrs Garfield is receiving the most distinguished attention in England. Sir Arthur Sullinax, the composer, has regained his health, although much enfeebled by his recent illness. Jenny Lind goldschmtdt, the Swedish Nightingale, died in London, a few days since, in her sixty-seventh year. The wealthiest colored man in the North is Dr. J. Gloucester, of Brooklyn, who is estimated to be worth $200,(XW. Tjr*?r Urr-TT r-u rlntiios t.hn rnmnr tli.it. hn is to I retire from the prac tice of his profession. Ho ! says he will die in the harness. Kose Elizabeth Cleveland is a devout Presbyterian. She has taken a pew in tbe First Presbyterian Church, on Fifth avenue, New York city. Seven years ago G. J. Griffiths, of Los Angeles, Cal., was a poor miner in tho Bodio Mining Camp, but to day he is a millionaire many times over. His fortune was made in real estate. There are already ten United States Senators in Washington who will remain there till Congress meets. They are Cockrell, Vest, Edmunds, Morrill, Harris, Jones, Dolph, Cullora, Piatt and Call. Chief Justice Waite is tho only one of the Justices who has not availed himself of tho act of Congress giving him a private Secretary at $1,800 a year. "I don't want one," says the Chief Justice; '"he'd only be in tho way." Elijah Hayes and wife have deeded their property at Warsaw, Jnd., worth $1."0,0U0, and yielding an annual income of $5,000, to the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Cliuich, subject only to an annuity of $1,500, to themselves. U. <J. \V II.SU.N, il A^ew nirik ui unci, "uvj olaims to have been tha youngest enlisted Confederate soldier. was also probably the smallest soldier in eith?r army, as he is little hipger tban Tom Thumb was." He is a bright little man with twinkling black eyes, black moustache, and a vivacious manner. The power of nn ocean storm wa< well illustrated at Bishop liock, England lately, when an iron column twenty-three feet long and weigliiup six thousand pounds, part of a new light-house being built, which, during a storm, had been left lashed by a halfinch chain at each end to strong eyewoo fonnrl fnaaad 11 n 1)V tllf UU1W, M l*a iUUUU 1WMUVV. ..r ?i# waves twenty feet to the top of the rock, swaying about liko a piece o! timber. Two days later, when the laborers were able to land, a blacksmith's anvil weighing 150 ponnds, which they had left in a hole feel deep and only 2$ feet in diameter, had also been washed by the waves completely out of the hole. I A QUEER HARVEST. ] GATHERING A SALINE CROP IN THE BAHAMAS. The Great Salt Cay of Ragged Island?At Work in the Lagoon?Collecting the Salt Crystals. At the southern end of a chain of coral reefs which break the force of the sea where the trade winds throw tho waves upon the Great Bahama Bank is a cay, or key, large enough to be inhabited, and to J possess the distinguishing name of i Ragged Island. As far as vegetation is concerned, the island .ooks as if it would make a poor goat pasture, much less susI tain the twenty or thirty families who I have made the place their home. ImI munity from rain in summer together , | with the possession of a large lagoon i which covers all that portion of the island I which is not rock or sand, so far from j making the spot uninhabitable, are the I only conditions that render the existence \ of the community possible. The island, I like the better known Turk's island, is a : salt cay, and the natives spend the whole summer in gathering a harvest which is as worthless to them as the velvety ooral ! sand that strews their beach, until some ; vessel, at a loss for a cargo, bra res auj tumn hurricanes and the encircling reefs, ! j and transports the product to someplace : I where it is wanted. It was for this that our vessel turned j ! aside on her homeward passage from the j Windward Islands, and rattled out her ; anchor one morning early in September j about six miles to leeward of the island. ; The water on the bank was of a pale emerald tint, and so clear that one could 1 ; see on the bottom twigs of creamy coral, : violet sea-fans waving slowly to and fro, and a tortoise crawling towards its nest. S A large portion of the population came ! out in sailboats to meet us; and as soon j as the negro customs-officer, who sailed . | under a red bandanna in lien oI an Eng? ! j lish ensign, bad finished bis examination, I | they swarmed aboard. There were but ! ; three white men on the island, one. of ! whom was our consignee. The latter, j whose name was Williams, placed the | vessel in charge of his brother as pilot, ! to take her to a better anchorage. The little hamlet consisted of white-"! washed huts, built of stones and thatched j with palmetto leaves, scattered irregu- j larly upon a little rocky hill. Near the ' landing a cluster of palmetto-thatched ! gables proved to be the covering of large j j pyramids of salt awaiting shipment. | The house of Mr. Williams was like the j j others, but larger; and the thatch was ! extended over a veranda, whose cool | i brown shade looked very inviting from . i the glare outside. A pretty decorative j ; effect was given by the regular lines of i : the light framework which sustained the ' j roof, crossed and interlaced by the bands j which fastened down the thatch. Two : | or three bright-colored lizards scurried ] | up the posts and opened their flaming [ I little jaws .it us as we entered. Mr. Williams refreshed us with a coolI ing drink, resembling lemonade, made by ; turning water over tam-.trinds. Afterwards he led the way to his harvest-fields. From the crcst of the hill a fine view was j j opened to the eastward over leagues of | sea, whose deep ultramarine changed to delicate opalescent tints on the coral reefs. Through a break in the outer line of the island the sea-water flowed in j and filled a large lagoon coverning j a number of acrcs. The lagoon was divided into sijtiare patches of pink-col| orcd water by dykes and crosswalks of I black earth. In some of these watery i fields men were at work, and an irregu- ! I lar procession of women and children I wound up over the hill aud down to . | the boat-landing, carrying baskets on ; | their heads, filled from white heap9 on , j the banks of the lagoon. By means of ! gate? from a main canal, the water was j let into one pond after another, covering ; | the flat bottom only a few inches deep. The rays of the sun evaporate the water j in a few days, and as the solution in- I j crcased in density it gradually takes a ' | pinkish hue and gives off a strong smell i j of chlorides. The crystals of salt at last j form on the bottom. At this stage a j ; heavy shower would be as unwelcome as j I - 1 ...1 <<, ?nrmct I I 111 <1 iJitjruciu n licit: uic gioou u j upon the ground; for a very little fresh j water would redissolve the salt, and the j evaporation would have to begin anew, j The workers do not wait until all the ' water dries away, but wade into the shallow ponds?men, women and children, with trousers and skirts tucked up ?and rake the crystals together in rows, *: as hay is raked in the fields. The water j washes away what earth is raked up with j I the salt, and when the men with shovels ; throw it together in little heaps I ke hay- j j cocks, it falls in a glistening mass of pure j rosy white. As soon as a pond is cleared j i the muddy water is drained away and J j the proccss begins anew. The salt , harvester gathers a number of crops durj ing the season. With the whole ocean i to draw upon, it would seem that the . business might be overdone in these lati' tudes, but we were told that a pond with the right kind of bottom for salt-making , is rarely found.?1Yao York rod. I The Throat of a Sinper. 1 j On an occasion a party of doctors were 1 talking in the parlor when Parcpa Rosa ! came in. Dr. Flint said to her: "We have just been discussing whether the . , throats of singers differed in any way ! j from the ordinary throat." "Well," she replies: "I have no objection to your , j making an examination of mine, if you ' like," and immediately put herself in ! the hands of the doctors, who thus had an opportunity seldom ntcorded the ; medical fraternity. Dr. Flint, who was i then engaged on his work on physiology, ! ! discovered quite a difference in the for ! matJOtl Ot U1C IIllOUl, uuu main.uu ! mentioned the fact in his book.?Xeu) : ; York Commercial A lrcrtiser. | 1 Oriffiu of Some Words. Mercy and commercearoirom the same 1 ro<?t. Attach and attack arc ctvmologi1 i cally identical. Valet used to be written ' | ! vasfet, from vasscl, vas?al!et. I'ontifcx i ! probably meant originally a pathmaker. i ! skeptic originally implied merely an observer, thence an inquirer, doubter, unI believer. Idea, that which is seen; idol, j a little image, a little stat'ie, a little j "that which is seen." Wiseacre, Old Dutch wise-eirgrr, soothsayer, (German i wcis*ager. wixsiyer, \veissagen,wizagon. ; Pabulum is from the Aryan root pa, lirmu'li ilit! I.uiin. and food is from the t ! same root through tho Teutonic lan- | 1 J gunge. Pasture and fodder are from the ' j same root through the two channels.? Journal of KJ'ii'iition. i J J ( (ieneral Mo roan's Hat, ! When the fame of Morgan, the Confederate raider, was on every tongue a ! New York i-lothing-hou>-c paid $1,000 . for a bullet-riddled hat-that he was said have woru. It was exhibited in their ! Broadway store, and 100,000 people looked at it at 25 cents a look. An At' lanta man now comei foiward with the I information that Central Morgan never ' saw the hat. ? Mete Yvrk World. MARJORIE. "Oh, dear," said Father Brown, one day, "I never saw such weather I The rain will spoil my meadow hay And all my crops together." His little daughter climbed his knee; "I guess the sun will shine," said she. "But if the sun," said Fanner Brown, "Should bring a dry September, With vines and stalks all wilted down, And fields scorched to an ember" "Why, then, 'twill rain," said Marjorie. The little girl upon his knee. . "Ah, me!" sighed Father Brown, that fall, "Now, what's the use of living? No plan of mine succeads at all" "Why, next month comes Thanksgiving, And then, of course," said Marjorie, "We're all as happy as can be." "Well, what should I be thankful forr - AflKea warmer .crown. my irouoie This summer has grown more and more, My losses have been double; I've nothing left"?"Why you've got me!" Said Marjoric, upon his knee. ? Wide Awake. PITH AND POINT. vl A piller of the church?A pious apothecary. ' -4^! "Bessie, what scratched your arm in that way?" " Mamma, I hit it with th? cat-" The clergyman may not be much of a carpenter, but is a pretty good joiner. ? Bazar. The lightniug-rod agents motto? . "Spare the rod and spoil the property." Burlington Free Pre?t. > . .. .4 The thing that a woman always knows best is how some other woman ought to dress.?Somrcille Journal. A married man can always pack a '?>J trunk more easily than a bachelor. H? J gets his wife to do it for him. One doesn't care much for the flattery of a cannibal when he says: "Yoa'r* good enough to eat."?New TorlcDispatch. An oatmeal trust has been organized in Canada. Where will this gruel tyrannj f of manufacture end?"?Norwich Bulletin. . "A New Jersey man has invented t a stove to carry in the hat." Wanted t? utilize a stovepipe probably.?New Eater Neus. - 'jWSt We do not see what it is that a clcck is ashamed of, that it should be con- . / stantly striving to cover its face witi its hand.?Lowell Citi-.en. The forming of a pool by the peppermint growers indicates that stomach, .j ache will be something of a luxury next m year.?Pittsburg Chronicle. While Bostonians may feel proud of . the provender which has made them fa- j mous, they object to being called - A ' plebeans.? Washington Hatchet Snooks?"I suppose you have a wide acquaintance in New York, Blinks?*" '-j ' Blinks?"Well, yes?one that weighs vk about 250."?Burlington Free Press. " Why can a man walk farther on acold day than on a hot one?" asked in- V.: quisitive Jack. "Because," said the r< Major, "warm weathermakeshimlimp."' ... " This quality in dudes one finds, Nor does one deem it strange, ' Through life they never change their minds; They have no minds to change. ?Boston Courier. It always bothers a Frenchman who is- v ^ learning English to read one day that a murder has been committed and the next day that the murderer has been committed.?New York Tribune. Frank James, ex-bandit, is clerking in a sto'3 in Austin, Tex. When he reaches -f ? into his pocket for a lead pencil and shouts " Cash I" all the customers jump / to their feet and hold up their hands.? Burdette. Hasheesh pills arc growing very popular among the opium eaters of Paris. Very astonishing dreams are said to result from them, but they are probably not more so than those produced by ordinary hash.?New Eaten News. Paint is a monster of such frightful build, That to be hated needs but to be smelled. But, smelled too oft, familiar to the face, We first endure, then pity, then catch tfn > painting fever and ^o around all over the premises, and daub it on every available place. _ _ ^ ?L/ansvuie tsreeze. < -> A Boonville school teacher had a great deal of trouble making a boy understand his lesson. Finally, however, he sue- ?? ceeded, and, drawing a long breath, re- ^ marked: "If it wasn't for me you wouldbe the biggest donkey in Boonville."? Louisville 'limes. Smith?"You seem particularly jolly this morning." Jones?"I ought to, as I just made a cool $500."?Smith? "How did you make it?" Jones?"Why, I bought a lot for $2,500 and raised tht < price to $3,000. Good deal, that."? San Francisco Wasp. He san? it with vfeor, He sang it each nay, "I would not live always, I ask not to stay," But when with a fever And chills takeu down, He uuiekly had iu all The doctors in town. ?Boston Courier. The Largest Criminal Court. What is claimed to be the largest criminal court in the world is the United States District Court for the Western district of Arkansas, located at Fort Smith, on the line of the Indian Territory, over which it has jurisdiction in all enses where a white mau or noncitizcn is a party to the crime. From this court there is no appeal, and when a criminal is once convicted his only loophole through which to escape the punishment which the law imposes on him is through executive clemency. It is well known that no court in all the land despatches business with the rapidity of the United States Court for the Western district of Arkansas, and no court exists where cases are tried with greater care for 1 he lights of all. It is in session the year round, there being four tenns?viz., February term, 3Iay term, August term and Movcmber term. The grand and petit juries are all composed of citizens of Arkansas, being selected from the several counties embraced in the district. Mr. Isaac C. Parker has been for twelve years past the Presiding Judge in this court, and during that time has disposed of over six thousand criminal casc^, besides a very large number of civil cases. Prior to the appointment of t... lux.11 tinvoit inpn JUUgc I .unci, mv.iv; ii.iu i/w** convi? tod of murder and hanged. Daring his term of ortice there have been 84 persons convicted of capital crimes and sentenced to death by him. Of those sentenced to death since 1873, 52 were hanged, 27 had their .sentences commuted to life imprisonment, and 4 to short terms of imprisonment, 3 died in jail while awaiting execution, 1 was killed while attempting escape and one was pardoned unconditionally.?Neto York Herald. Tho cotton cropof Virginia during tbc past iO years is estimated to ha c averaged nearly 20,000 bales.